John Doerr
| John Doerr | |
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Doerr speaking at TED in 2007
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| Born |
June 29, 1951 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Rice University (B.S. & M.S.) Harvard Business School (M.B.A.) |
| Occupation | Venture capitalist |
| Employer | Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers |
| Net worth |
 US$4.1 billion (October 2015) |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Howland Doerr |
| Children | Mary Doerr, Esther Doerr |
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951) is an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in Silicon Valley. In February 2009, Doerr was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. As of October 2015[update], Forbes ranked Doerr as the 135th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US $4.1 billion.
Doerr was born in St. Louis, Missouri. One of five siblings, Doerr graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis. He obtained a B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1976.
Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. He eventually became one of Intel's most successful salespeople. He also holds several patents for memory devices.
He joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980 and since then, has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the world including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore.com, Amazon.com, Intuit, Macromedia, and Google.
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